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Thomas Eizinger 324edce754 feat(connlib): roll-over WireGuard session on connection upsert (#10102)
When a Client upserts a connection to a Gateway, we currently assume
that the connection is still intact. After all, it hasn't hit an ICE
timeout, otherwise the connection would not be present in memory. If
however the Gateway restarted or somehow lost its connection state and
the Client hasn't noticed yet, then the upsert will be an _insert_ for
the Gateway and ICE will create a new connection for us.

In order to ensure that the WireGuard tunnel state and ICE are
synchronized at all times, we also need to handshake a new session.

`boringtun` maintains up to 8 concurrent sessions for us. This allows
for a smooth roll-over where packets encrypted with the keys from
previous sessions can still be decrypted. Thus, we can easily roll-over
the session on every connection upsert without any trouble.

To ensure that this doesn't happen _very_ rapidly, we debounce these
proactive session roll-overs to happen at most every 20s.

This follows the idea of MADR-0017.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Eizinger <thomas@eizinger.io>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jamil <jamilbk@users.noreply.github.com>
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Rust development guide

Firezone uses Rust for all data plane components. This directory contains the Linux and Windows clients, and low-level networking implementations related to STUN/TURN.

We target the last stable release of Rust using rust-toolchain.toml. If you are using rustup, that is automatically handled for you. Otherwise, ensure you have the latest stable version of Rust installed.

Reading Client logs

The Client logs are written as JSONL for machine-readability.

To make them more human-friendly, pipe them through jq like this:

cd path/to/logs  # e.g. `$HOME/.cache/dev.firezone.client/data/logs` on Linux
cat *.log | jq -r '"\(.time) \(.severity) \(.message)"'

Resulting in, e.g.

2024-04-01T18:25:47.237661392Z INFO started log
2024-04-01T18:25:47.238193266Z INFO GIT_VERSION = 1.0.0-pre.11-35-gcc0d43531
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295243016Z INFO No token / actor_name on disk, starting in signed-out state
2024-04-01T18:25:48.295360641Z INFO null

Benchmarking on Linux

The recommended way for benchmarking any of the Rust components is Linux' perf utility. For example, to attach to a running application, do:

  1. Ensure the binary you are profiling is compiled with the release profile.
  2. sudo perf record -g --freq 10000 --pid $(pgrep <your-binary>).
  3. Run the speed test or whatever load-inducing task you want to measure.
  4. sudo perf script > profile.perf
  5. Open profiler.firefox.com and load profile.perf

Instead of attaching to a process with --pid, you can also specify the path to executable directly. That is useful if you want to capture perf data for a test or a micro-benchmark.